Putting a bow on the ACC basketball season, from worst to first. Time to break down Florida State, which couldn't quite match the top teams in the conference.

Record: 22-14 (9-9 ACC)

Last seen: Falling in overtime to Minnesota in the NIT semifinals, a setback that both denied the Seminoles a chance to play for a championship and their first four-game winning streak since before New Year's Day.

What went right: Guard Aaron Thomas had a breakout season as a sophomore, offering plenty of hope for the second half of his career. Ian Miller rebounded from an injury-riddled junior year and re-emerged as an efficient outside shooter. Okaro White wasn't a star, but he was a solid presence more often than he was not and closed out his career in Tallahassee in fine fashion.

The Seminoles didn't have many inexplicably bad days, falling nine times to eventual NCAA tournament teams and thrice more to opponents that made the NIT. Florida State did not have a loss against a team with a losing record.

What went wrong: The Seminoles' only two setbacks against non-postseason teams came in a three-day stretch in early February against Maryland and Miami. Miller missed the Maryland game with an ankle injury, and those games came at the tail end of a 1-5 swoon that badly damaged Florida State's NCAA hopes.

Leonard Hamilton's team took a major hit even before the season started, though. Freshman Xavier Rathan-Mayes was declared ineligible, leaving the Seminoles short-handed in the backcourt. Hamilton likes to liberally substitute, and the lack of options at guard prevented Florida State from playing entirely like it wanted to all year.

Who's leaving: Miller and White are the most notable departures for the Seminoles. White slipped past 1,400 career points in the NIT, capping a career that featured gradual improvement from start to finish. Miller's departure takes away an option in the backcourt, and it could be incumbent upon Devon Bookert to fill Miller's outside shooting role after regressing from the perimeter as a sophomore.

What will be new: Rathan-Mayes will presumably step in and make an immediate impact. Four of Florida State's top six scorers will be back, and no one on the Seminoles' roster was a junior last season. For the post-Michael Snaer group Hamilton has assembled, the peak figures to be in 2016, but no one would complain if a return to the NCAA tournament arrived a year early.

Program trajectory: Even. Florida State was definitely better than the bottom five teams in the conference (5-0) and was definitely worse than the four teams that earned byes into the quarterfinals (0-6). In between, Florida State beat Pittsburgh, split with Clemson and Miami, lost to N.C. State and took two of three from Maryland.

How much better is this bunch going to be without Miller and White? Or, maybe a better question: Does Florida State have enough in place to push into the top third of the league? That seems like a bit of a stretch. But Hamilton's done a good enough job in recent years to provide some assurance the Seminoles won't completely collapse.

Thomas' evolution as a player suggests he could be one of the top 10 players in the ACC next season. He's a fine cornerstone for a team that was mostly good but seldom memorable this past season.